[ale] OT: Tor Server Volunteers Needed

[torqued at asheville.com]

Fellow Linux Enthusiasts;

Please consider donating your boxen, bandwidth and
brotherhood to the Tor (The-Onion-Routing) Project.

Tor is distributed as Free Software under the
3-clause BSD license.

Electronic Frontier Foundation:
http://tor.eff.org

TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ - Noreply Wiki:
http://wiki.noreply.org/wiki/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ

Tor mailing list archive:
http://archives.seul.org/or/talk

Tor Exit Node Status:
http://serifos.eecs.harvard.edu:8000/cgi-bin/exit.pl?addr=1

Tor is a network of virtual tunnels that allows
people and groups to improve their privacy and
security on the Internet. It also enables software
developers to create new communication tools with
built-in privacy features. Tor provides the
foundation for a range of applications that allow
organizations and individuals to share information
over public networks without compromising their
privacy.

Individuals use Tor to keep websites from tracking
them and their family members, or to connect to
news sites, instant messaging services, or the
like when these are blocked by their local
Internet providers. Tor's hidden services let
users publish web sites and other services without
needing to reveal the location of the site.
Individuals also use Tor for socially sensitive
communication: chat rooms and web forums for rape
and abuse survivors, or people with illnesses.

Journalists use Tor to communicate more safely
with whistleblowers and dissidents.
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) use Tor to
allow their workers to connect to their home
website while they're in a foreign country,
without notifying everybody nearby that they're
working with that organization.

Groups such as Indymedia recommend Tor for
safeguarding their members' online privacy and
security. Activist groups like the Electronic
Frontier Foundation (EFF) are supporting Tor's
development as a mechanism for maintaining civil
liberties online. Corporations use Tor as a safe
way to conduct competitive analysis, and to
protect sensitive procurement patterns from
eavesdroppers. They also use it to replace
traditional VPNs, which reveal the exact amount
and timing of communication. Which locations have
employees working late? Which locations have
employees consulting job-hunting websites? Which
research divisions are communicating with the
company's patent lawyers?

A branch of the U.S. Navy uses Tor for open source
intelligence gathering, and one of its teams used
Tor while deployed in the Middle East recently.
Law enforcement uses Tor for visiting or
surveilling web sites without leaving government
IP addresses in their web logs, and for security
during sting operations.

The variety of people who use Tor is actually part
of what makes it so secure. Tor hides you among
the other users on the network, so the more
populous and diverse the user base for Tor is, the
more your anonymity will be protected.





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